When you have days like that, you have a couple knockdowns through the day and to fight back and find yourself in victory lane.

Those definitely are very gratifying.

Consistency matters more.

The first 26 races are incredibly important and you're seating for the chase.

Welcome into the Victory Lab.

I'm Caitlin Vinci here with Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour.

And so good to have Ryan Blaney, the Big Phoenix winner,

joining us on the program.

And Ryan, with everything that you and your team faced in that race,

would you feel like this is maybe one of the more hard fought wins in your career? Yeah.

Yeah, it's definitely up there. That's for sure. You know, we did a great job of overcoming some of our mistakes and issues.

You know, so I'm really proud of that. And, you know, we just persevered through the whole day, you know, and if we did have a problem, right, it's just we focused on what's the next task that we have to accomplish, you know, so I was really proud of everybody for having that mindset. And that's a great mindset that we have with this 12 team. And, you know, everyone's going to make mistakes. But it's how do you learn from them and how do you move on?

And, you know, we had a fast enough car to make up a lot of it and find ourselves in position and in the game towards the end of the race to take two tires. And that was a great call by Jonathan and that allowed us, you know, to get the lead here on the restart like you're seeing. and uh and then hold off the 20 car who was who was you know really coming on four

tires there at the end of the race but get the lead here on the restart like you're seeing and and uh and then hold off the 20 car who was who

was you know really coming on four tires there at the end of the race but um yeah definitely a day

when you have days like that that kind of you have you have a couple knockdowns through the day

and to fight back and find yourself in victory lane those definitely are very gratifying i feel

like for your whole group i was going to say how does that speak to the strength of the team and just the depth of the team that you have when you can overcome those types of things?

Yeah, I'm very lucky to be with such a great group of people, you know, and that's what this whole sport is, is the people.

And I've been really fortunate to have been surrounded by really hard workers, people who share the same mindsets,

you know, across the board. And, you know, we've built that community up, you know, with

everybody, you know, Jonathan's done an amazing job of putting this amazing group of folks together that, you know, want to work hard and, uh, and get through the hard times together and, uh, and enjoy the good times as well. So it's a fun community that we've built over here. Not only at, you know, our 12 group, but all of team Penske. And it's fun to go to battle with those guys every week. You mentioned Jonathan, your crew chief several times, obviously had the correct strategy call in the end. What kind of an asset do you feel like he has been to your career in the program? Oh, I've had an absolute blast working with Jonathan, you know, since 2022. And it's hard to believe it's been, you know, 22, 23, 24, 25, you know, we're in our fifth year together. you know it's it's hard to believe it's been you know 22 23 24 25 you know we're in our fifth year together

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